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RUSH: Which is the apocalypse?<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Brian in Livonia, Michigan. Great to have you. And thank you for waiting. I appreciate it. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking my call, Rush. Love you. I\u2019ve been listening since 1991.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re the only one that gives me hope out there right now, but I keep listening to your show since the apocalypse happened, keep listening to your show day after day —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Which is the apocalypse?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing).<\/p>\n
RUSH: ‘Cause a bunch of things could qualify.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, we\u2019ll say mid-March since the shutdown business started.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Coronavirus.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Coronavirus, correct. That apocalypse. And I\u2019ve been waiting to hear some recognition from you, especially in the last few weeks, that Trump is as much to blame for the economic collapse and the shutdown as Fauci and the Scarf Queen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, you\u2019re wondering why Trump went along with the people who told him you gotta shut it down, because you think he should have known that they are actually not on his team. That they come from the bureaucratic realm and you think that because he went along with it that he can\u2019t blame others for whatever economic destruction, damage that\u2019s happened, he\u2019s culpable, he did it, he shut it down, you want somebody to acknowledge this and say it, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. I would say that\u2019s not my specific thrust. I wouldn\u2019t blame him so much from maybe mid-March to maybe even mid-April.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What is the specific thrust?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, he went after Brian Kemp in Georgia. He tweeted maybe Friday or Saturday comparing their numbers and criticizing what Sweden\u2019s been doing and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Now, why do you think he went after Brian Kemp? And did you note how he did it?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019ve heard articles trying to explain why he did it, that there\u2019s some kind of background between him and Kemp, but that\u2019s not —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. It has nothing to do with Kemp. It has to do with Birx and Fauci.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, yes. I don\u2019t know if it —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do not doubt me. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
CALLER: — Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do not doubt me. And in a way that should tick you off, by the way.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m not sure I understand your point, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. You\u2019ve got a situation where the first thing he says, Kemp\u2019s gonna open up, he\u2019s all in favor of it, right? He\u2019s applauding Kemp for opening up. Then Fauci and Birx come along and of course the rest of the media and the rest of the bureaucratic health establishment, “Oh, my God. Oh, this is horrible, oh, this is bad.” Trump then changes his tune on Kemp. But while he changes his tune on Kemp, he says, “But I\u2019m not gonna tell him he can\u2019t. If he wants to do it, he can do it. But I got tell you, I\u2019m really upset with Brian Kemp, I\u2019m really upset.<\/p>\n
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Wait a minute. A week ago you were singing Kemp\u2019s praises. You loved Kemp. So what can explain this? The fact is he did not order Kemp to reverse. He let Kemp continue on with his plan to open up the state, to end the lockdown there. But he went out of his way — and don\u2019t forget the time frame. This is after this stupid kerfuffle about wanting to inject people with Clorox. So it was about Trump demonstrating to these jackals that — wrong word — demonstrating to these people that are judging him every day up there on the task force, the health people, that he\u2019s so the same page with \u2019em.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, now, Trump going after Kemp is going to give support to any other governor that wants to keep things shut down. And I also wanted to bring in that Trump is signaling openness to bailing out the states, and that\u2019s taking the pressure off. And I would except New York, New Jersey from this, but that\u2019s taking the pressure off on —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Always pay attention to when everything\u2019s said and done, what Trump has done and not what he says in the process. Look. Hang on, if you want, \u2019cause we can condition this. You\u2019ve opened a lot of things here that really do need to be discussed. I would love to, but I gotta take some breaks here. It will be a while. If you want to hang on, feel free. If not, I\u2019ll continue myself.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I want to go back to Brian in Livonia, Michigan. ‘Cause I promised I\u2019d come back to you and you wanted to think about this a little bit further. And so you were gonna nail the premise, what you\u2019re really concerned with where Trump is concerned, and the kind of criticism you think that he deserves. You mentioned that he sent a signal he might bail out some states, that that\u2019s not a good thing to do. That was one example you gave.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you yourself have said before that Fauci goes on these various shows and just kills every hope that —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Every day, whenever there\u2019s good news here comes Fauci or somebody to pour water on it. No. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. And Fauci is only clothed with the authority that Trump allows him to have. You know, he\u2019s only out there to the extent that I would assume that Trump is allowing or failing to prevent —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I get your point.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me see if I can build on it. So you think — don\u2019t misunderstand the tone of my voice — I\u2019m not being critical or judgmental here. I\u2019m just trying to understand.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You think that Trump ought not allow Fauci to do things which contradict him or to pour cold water where Trump thinks things are going well. He just shouldn\u2019t allow, he\u2019s got control over Fauci, Fauci is in the executive branch, Trump is the executive branch, and you wonder why Trump is kind of deferring to this guy when it\u2019s apparent to some people that Fauci\u2019s best interests do not align with Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I think that\u2019s a fair summation. I would say Fauci, if there\u2019s one message at the press conference, which I know have been stopped, but just going back to the daily press conferences —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. The briefing.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Which I miss, by the way, \u2019cause Trump does sound hopeful, and it\u2019s kind of like you, it\u2019s one of the few things that makes me feel good in a day, which is kind of sad to say, I suppose. But, yeah, the president\u2019s charged with message discipline of all of his administration.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here\u2019s the thing Trump knows. And I\u2019m jumping in only because I\u2019ve got a time crunch here. The president knows that in terms of public opinion Fauci probably has a higher approval rating than any human being on the planet, short of the legacy of Mother Teresa. It probably is something that Trump has decided it doesn\u2019t make sense to go to war with or to have a battle with.<\/p>\n
So you\u2019ll notice that Fauci\u2019s not as visible lately. He\u2019s not showing up at every briefing or very many of them. Trump is not letting him testify to the House where there\u2019s a bunch of Trump-hating demons. He\u2019s gonna let Fauci testify over the Senate, Senate hearings and so forth. I think he\u2019s doing what he thinks is safe. But even if you wanted to, there is no way you\u2019re gonna succeed, nobody is. And I say all this is hypothetical. If anybody wanted to try to portray Fauci as a problem, the problem, nobody\u2019s gonna have any success at that. It isn\u2019t gonna work. And so it\u2019s probably a battle that if you want to see, you\u2019re not gonna see it take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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